7. You can use Gmail in more than 50 languages, including: Malayalam, Telugu, Welsh, Basque, Tagalog etc

8. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin own just 16% of Google and their combined net worth is around $46 billion.

9. Almost 1,000 of Google’s employees became millionaires when the company went public in 2004.

10. Masseuse Bonnie Brown is one of those millionaires who worked at Google, giving back rubs for $450 a week back in 1999.

11. In 2009, Google rented around 200 goats for a whole week to eat the grass and fertilise the soil at its California headquarters.

12. The first Google doodle was a Burning Man symbol. This first doodle was added by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 to let users know they were away from the office in that weekend (they went to the Burning Man festival).

13. Almost all of rival company Mozilla’s money comes from Google: they pay $300 million every year to be the default search engine on Mozilla’s web browser Firefox.

14. A new Google employee is known as a “Noogler” and a former employee is named: “Xoogler”.

15. Larry Page’s brother: Carl, helped the start of the eGroups.com company in the 90s, who was acquired for almost half a billion dollars by Yahoo (2000).

Adi Domocos is the Founder of Hot in Social Media. After working for several years in different international companies from Marketing Manager to Country Manager, he decided to launch a site in a field he really loves: Social Media Marketing. He’s a social guy who tries to help and cheer up those around him. You can follow him on Google+ , Twitter and LinkedIn

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